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Are organizations truly adopting Agile principles? Let's consider whether an organization can act as a single Agile Release Train to help organize work effectively while also protecting the employees' work-life balance.

I recently coached on an R&D project that involved a lot of research work. Googling and reading books for help did not really give us much advice about Scrum for research — it felt as if we were among the first ones to do it. That’s why I hope some may find it helpful to read about the adjustments that we made.

With my company’s recent adoption of Agile using the Scrum framework, it made sense for me to see what this was all about. What helped me transition was a compare-and-contrast exercise that I would like to share with you.

As humans, we have a tendency to forget things — or sometimes completely ignore things — if they don’t interest us or offer little to no value. In terms of effective Scrum execution, important discussion points can vaporize quickly. We came up with the following solution to this common problem.